Post-Processor : ANSYS CFX Post-Processing Specifications

Summary of Features for Version 11.0

The ANSYS CFX post-processor provides a powerful and flexible analysis system for ANSYS CFX results. Its capabilities are summarized below.

• Automated report generation
  • Report generation (comments, figures, charts, tables)
  • Report templates can be established that include all charts, tables, figures and then re-used for each design to allow easy comparison of design alternatives.
  • HTML report export
    
    
• General post-processing capabilities
  • Simultaneous load of multiple results
• Automatic region recalculation after results reload
• Context-sensitive help
• Unlimited undo and redo
• Configurable mouse buttons
• Configurable units specification
• Configurable look and feel 
• Object picking, dragging and dynamic highlighting
• Context-sensitive right-click object control in the viewer
• Session recording and playback
• State save and restore
• Batch processing
• Fully programmable post-processing including loops, logic, subroutines (macros)
  
  
• Data import/export
  • Reads results in ANSYS CFX, CFX-4, CFX-TASCflow, ANSYS shell and 3-D elements or CGNS formats
  • Import of external data (surfaces, lines, charts)
  • Image output to postscript, jpeg, png, bmp, and ppm
  • 3-D scene output to CVF (ANSYS CFX Viewer format) and VRML
  • Embed 3-D interactive scene output and viewer in PowerPoint software via HTML
    
    
• Graphics capabilities
  • Multiple viewer windows
  • Predefined and user defined views
  • Scene clipping
  • Points and point clouds (object sampling)
  • Slice planes (unbounded and bounded)
  • Circular and rectangular sample planes 
  • Isosurfaces 
  • Surfaces or revolution 
  • Volumes from iso-values, sphere, surface intersection. 
  • Lines and polylines (2-point, external data or region/slice intersection) 
  • Surface groups 
  • Offset surfaces 
  • Coloring any surface, line or point by variables 
  • Contours/fringes 
  • Streamlines & surface streamlines 
  • Vectors 
  • XY charts (variable on a line, time chart or from file)
  • Rendering control of faces, lines, lighting, transparency and texture mapping
  • 2-D and 3-D text labels and annotations
    
    
• Animation creation
  • Quick animation (planes, isosurfaces, mesh displacement, timesteps)
  • Detailed key-frame animation
  • MPEG output
    
    
• Quantitative post-processing
  • Interactive data probe
• Node count, mass flow, length, area and volume evaluation
• Length, area, volume and mass flow-based averaging and integration
• Force and torque calculation
• Support of all above functions in expressions 
• User defined variables 
• Mesh quality analysis 
• Quantitative tables in a spreadsheet-like environment
  
  
• Turbomachinery post-processing
• Turbo slices (m', theta, span)
• 3-D or turbo views (b2b, meridional) 
• Circumferential averaging 
• Cylindrical vectors 
• Turbo-specific plots, performance macros and reports

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